Chapter 1450 Tank March (First update, please subscribe)
"Everyone, listen to my orders. Don't stand here and let them be buried. Gentlemen, pick up your weapons and fight bravely!"
After saying this, he took off his military cap, just like General Armistead in the South. He put his military cap on the tip of his command knife, and then jumped out of the collapsing trench, followed by more than 100 people.
They rushed towards the battle ahead. Although he didn't know how to fight the steel monster, Neil still stubbornly chose to fight the "tank" instead of retreating.
"Gentlemen, for America!"
Although the air was filled with the roar of tank engines and the clatter of steel tracks, and although he was a little nervous inside, Neil still loudly encouraged the soldiers to fight.
"Gentlemen! Take up your courage and don't let those damn yellow people look down on us!"
Just as Neil was courageously setting an example and encouraging the frightened soldiers to boost their morale, he saw several tanks rushing towards him clumsily and slowly, with blue-gray smoke spewing out of the exhaust pipes on the sides of the tanks.
Snowflakes were flying around the tanks, and at this moment a shocking scene came into Neil's eyes - he saw a tank pressing directly towards a soldier. Amid the soldier's screams, the steel tracks crushed his thigh. Just as he was struggling to escape, another tank crushed Neil, who was holding a command knife in his hand with the tip of the knife on his military cap. He opened his eyes wide in astonishment, and he almost watched the tanks rushing towards them. In front of the tanks, a group of American soldiers with rifles were using their bodies to stop these monsters!
“Crack…”
The air was filled with the sound of tanks rolling over flesh and crushing bones. The sound was weird and harsh!
There were more machine gun sounds - the barrels of the machine guns on the tank turrets spewed flames.
"Oh my God, what kind of monster is this..."
Just when Neil wanted to pray in fear, a bullet hit him, and the command knife in his hand and the military cap on the tip of the knife fell to the ground with him. When Neil fell to the ground, the tank roared towards him, and finally the tank tracks directly pressed on his legs. When Neil was screaming and wailing, the tank tracks with minced meat pressed over his body.
The seemingly insurmountable trench was easily breached.
Behind the tanks were the cheering infantrymen who launched the charge. They cheered and shouted as they launched the attack along with the tanks. The barbed wire that once blocked the infantrymen's advance was torn apart and pushed down by the tanks, and the deep trenches became graves for burying the enemy.
“Pah…”
As in the past, the conductor Li Shaohua kicked the driver's back seat hard. Feeling the kick on his back, Lin Hong turned his head and shouted.
"Captain, what?"
"There's a machine gun bunker at ten o'clock, drive over there!"
Li Shaohua shouted, and when the tank turned, he used the turret's light signals to signal other vehicles in the platoon.
Because there is no radio station, red and green light signal tubes are installed on both sides of the commander's vehicle's turret, which can send simple signals through light combinations. This seemingly primitive technology is a method that the Imperial Military has explored through training over many years. It can be regarded as an epoch-making invention. After all, in another world, tanks relied on releasing carrier pigeons to communicate until the 1930s.
In fact, light signals are not only used inside the vehicle. Because there is no in-vehicle transmitter inside the tank, there is a set of indicator light system inside the Type 18 tank. The commander can control the 12 indicator lights in front of the driver's position to let the driver perform operations such as starting, stopping and turning.
Although this idea is beautiful, in actual use, the driver has no spare energy to observe the indicator lights at any time while driving the tank, and then judge the commander's command. Therefore, the commander usually gives him turning and stopping orders by kicking the seat back, knocking on the driver's shoulders, and pulling his clothes.
Compared with light signals, this method is simpler and more convenient. When the tank approached the machine gun bunker in the distance, Li Shaohua did not use the machine gun to shoot at the machine gun bunker. After all, it would be useless to shoot at it.
Although there are models of Type 18 tanks equipped with 37mm guns, most of them are equipped with a Type 10 machine gun. In order to make up for its insufficient attack capability, in addition to grenades, the tanks often carry several heavy grenades weighing 2.2 kg. This type of grenade has a charge of up to 2 kg and has been widely used in attacking since the Nanhua era. It has many nicknames from "Thor's Hammer" to "Bangjian Candy", the former is the name given to it by other countries, and the latter is the title of the imperial soldiers.
The lollipop is very big and not everyone is willing to eat it.
When the tank approached the machine gun bunker, they could even see an old-fashioned Gatling machine gun spewing flames forward. When the tank approached the bunker, Li Shaohua directly opened the side door on the left side of the turret and threw a "lollipop" at the machine gun bunker. After the tank drove away for several meters, the violent explosion even caused the tank body to shake.
Turning the turret and looking at the collapsed machine gun bunker, Li Shaohua smiled triumphantly, then he patted the driver's shoulder hard.
"Keep going forward and join up with the troops!"
After eliminating the machine gun bunker, the tank once again moved forward at full speed. Li Shaohua, who was operating the machine gun, kept firing bullets at the enemies who were trying to escape. Faced with these invulnerable monsters, many Americans fled to the rear. Now they only regretted that their parents had not given them two more legs.
As they fled in panic, they were constantly knocked to the ground by machine guns. Compared with 37mm cannons, machine guns posed a greater threat to infantry. Under the strafing of tank machine guns, the US military's resistance collapsed easily.
Faced with the tanks, all the U.S. military and the citizens who were temporarily mobilized could do was to flee. However, their fleeing speed was not faster than the tanks at all. When they caught up with the tanks, the tank drivers didn't even look at them and just crashed into them. When they were knocked down, the steel tracks directly crushed the enemies who were not in a hurry to flee. After the tanks passed, the snow was all bloody red.
Li Shaohua looked at the battlefield with a little excitement. On the battlefield, tanks were like ancient heavy cavalry, charging around without any scruples. Anyone who tried to stop them would be crushed under the tank tracks.
"That's how wars are fought!"
Li Shaohua shouted excitedly.
"Go forward, catch up..."
(End of this chapter)
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